Conservation Quotes

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

The sea is the universal sewer.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

Conservation is now a dead word.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

The rural economy is significantly better. Our natural resources, particularly our working lands, are more resilient. And more money is being invested in soil conservation and water preservation. Our forests will be in better shape if Congress does what it needs to do to fix the fire-suppression budget.